Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Adam De Rose, Interfaith Worker Justice Blog Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ) advances the rights of workers by engaging diverse faith communities into action, from grassroots organizing to shaping policy at the local, state and national levels. It specializes in adoption from China, Taiwan and Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. When so many grantmakers have adopted the practice, and for so many good reasons, there’s strong motivation for their reexamining the basis of their resistance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. Please join us in realizing this “radical” future!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

” She also told us that their Youth Projects’ video was aired nationally on the Foxtel network in Australia. Our audience choice award for 2012 went to Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) in Edison, New Jersey. " Our first place video for 2012 was by Columbus, Ohio based Dave Thomas Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Since its adoption at the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the Declaration has become a universal standard for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya. To identify industry leaders in Africa willing to be early adopters of international standards. Images courtesy of Caroline Bowley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2012

Note From Beth: With the rise of mobile adoption and the primary use to access the Internet and social platforms, it is reaching across consumer segments of all income levels. For more background, we have an article in the Summer 2012 issue of SSIR and we will be having a Live Chat with Chronicle of Philanthropy on July 10 th.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. Tablet adoption is very brisk. We’re working from restaurants, cafes, hotels, our cars, planes, the beach, and classically from home.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

century skills have been adopted throughout the Common Core State Standards Initiative by 45 states as of November 2012. Year Up, another national nonprofit, teachers business skills, tech training, and provides job connections to urban youth. According to the ALA report, 21 st. A United Front.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

A federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in October 2012, finding that HathiTrust’s use of books scanned by Google was fair use under U.S. As someone who helped create the original draft of what became the Treaty, it was a momentous event for me personally to see the great model we’ve used in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

According to the 2017 RWR 30 released in March, revenue from the top Run, Walk and Cycling events are down 8% since 2012. Since 2005, social media adoption has grown from 5% to 70%. This next example is Panda Nation from our friends at World Wildlife Fund. Source: Everydayhero , March 2017]. That’s astronomical growth.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Causes began as a Facebook app in 2007, and became independent in 2012. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. It was one of the original 10 Facebook apps.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. It’s not just about institutional change. So, what now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Lean Startup principles have been adopted widely in other sectors, and once you get a glimpse of the principles, it’s clear that Lean can be applied to any organization that needs to operate in a capital-efficient way. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It is hugely important that we get governments and multi-nationals to change the way they treat the planet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot do anything to show we care. This isn’t the only study that supports the adoption of a largely plant-based diet. It’s not just about institutional change. So, what now?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

As reported by the Star Tribune local , "Spare Key [the charity] is one of the first Minnesota nonprofits to make an appeal to cryptocurrency holders, and among a tiny but growing group nationally. According to the infographic, 40 percent of North American consumers have already adopted mobile payments in some form.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2012 , Outlook.com is Microsoft’s new Web-based email service. To view icons relevant to nonprofits, see the sets created and submitted by the National Park Service and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Outlook.com :: outlook.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Department of Education was to serve 100,000 students by the end of our five-year contract in late 2012. Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. And the price to the Dept.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. Based in the U.K., 360 Panorama :: occipital.com/360/app.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012. an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50

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